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THOMAS B. STOUT, OF KEYPOR'I, NEW JERSEY. Letters Patent No. eaves, dated June 11,1867.

IMPROVED TACK-HAMMER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. STOUT, of Keyport, in the county of Monmouth, and State of New Jersey,

have invented an Improved Hammer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a side view of my improved hammer. Figure 2, an under side view thereof. I Figure 3, a central longitudinal section through the handle, and transverse to'the head. Figure 4, a front view of the hammer.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures. The eye is made obliquely through the head A, so that the handle B will have the same angle to the head,

and bring the face end enough farther in advance of the upper end of the head to admit claws C or D on the front edge of the hammer, as shown or the equivalent of the oblique eye is employed to arrive at the same result. The face a of the hammer is parallel, or nearly so, with the line of the handle 13, or so as to strike properly upon the nails. I make the claws onthe frontside' of the hammer, as represented, being next to one edge thereof, as seen in figs. 2, 3, and 4, so as to enable the claws to be brought close to the surface from which nails are to be drawn. They are at the same time close to the upper end of the hammer head, so as to require the least obliquity of the headto the handle not to strike any object in front of the hammer,'and especially to enable them to reach position except merely to cant it to one side for using the claws.

and draw nails in corners. The claws are formed as part of the hammer head itself, as shown at D; but they may be made on the end of a wedge, a, driven into the endoi' the handle through the eye of the hammer to hold the head on, as shown at G; yet this construction requires greater obliquity of the hammer head to shield the claws, and the claws have not the advantage of being able to be used in corners. In either case they project in line parallel with the handle. This location of the claws makes the hammer very convenient, especially for putting down and taking up carpets. It can be used either for driving or drawing without any change of' I I also maguetize the claws C orD for holding the nails in the claws after they are drawn till they are picked oh and secured.

I am aware that the face of a hammer has been magnetized to hold nails for driving. But I am not aware that the claws of hammers have ever been magnetized before for accomplishing, as it were, an opposite purpose, quite useful in itself.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I V The arrangement of the hammer head oblique to the handle, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

I I also claim the claws arranged on the front side of the hammer head, at the upper end thereof, and in line parallel with the handle, in combination with the oblique arrangement of the head and handle for the purpose herein set forth. 7

I also claim the combination of the oblique head and handle and magnetized claws, substantially'as herein specified. I a

The above specification of my improved hammer signed by me this thirtieth dayof August, 1866.

THOS. B. STOUT.

Witnesses: I I

Euennm STOUT, Mucus B. TAYLOR 

